One of my broad strokes in building an RPGMaker game is to model, more or less, the Echelon chassis. Specifically, the talent system. At each level a PC gains a talent and upgrades a talent. The new talent is gained at the current tier (that is, it is a level-appropriate …
Years ago in my day job, we had a senior manager who kept coming to us with new things he wanted us to work on, clearly higher priority than all his previous requests. “I am a good idea generator!” “Well, you’re a powerful generator of ideas…” Let’s see which one …
The first step in any project is to identify what you’re trying to achieve. “I want to make a game” is not sufficient, since almost anything could satisfy that. “I want to make an RPGMaker game” is a little better, but even then it’s not very specific. Let’s see what …
I’ve always liked the idea behind RPGMaker MV (current version, initially released October 2015; there have been previous versions, and ‘RPGMaker MZ’ is scheduled for release later this week). It’s a tool specifically for making JRPG-style games, in the vein of Dragon Quest and (certain) Zelda games and Ys and …
As part of learning RPGMaker MV, I have watched many YouTube videos to see how people do things. Driftwood Gaming is one of my go-to posters on this. Drifty explains well what he is doing and why, and presents many useful tricks that come from working with the tool, things …
